Amarante is the name of a delicatessen in Virton (B) held by a licensed herbalist sommelier and winemaker. With their cooperation, we married one of our beers with two exotic peppers. One year of work for a very aromatic, sweet and powerful at the same time, a perfect balance of flavors and peppery hoppy beer. The partnership calls other ... Think about it!

Bottle. Pours dark amber with off white head. Nose/taste of fennel, seed, pepper, spice, caramel, sweet malt and sage. Taste is thinner and light on the palate. Nose is very pungent with overabundance of spice.

Beer spiced with some exotic pepper variety. Thin but stable, off-white head, amber colour with orange glow, hazy. Aroma not unlike pepper cream sauce of the kind often served with steak, caramel, nuts, nutmeg, chilli, meat, peach. Soft fruity onset, caramelly and nutty malt base, quickly accompanied by a spicy effect of chilli pepper and green pepper corns, some peppery hoppiness in the finish too. Great if you like spicy food but it’s easy to see why people who don’t, will find this abominable.

Slightly hazy amber and copper coloured body with a thin, fast-dying white head. Aroma of bright black pepper, pink pepper, light hops, bunches of sweetness, a touch of yeast and more pepper - very nice smelling, intoxicating, almost! Medium-bodied; Assertive pepper flavour up front that isn’t spicy at all with a more mellow flavour in the middle with a little malt, fruit sweetness, some other herbs and a touch of earthy bitterness at the end. Aftertaste is mildly complex with pepper dominating and showing some sweetness and a lot of dry characteristics. Overall, a very nice complex beer that you wouldn’t expect too much, but good all around! I’m glad I brought this back home with me and would tell anyone else to do the same, assuming you can find it! I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased from Delices & Caprises in Bruxelles, Belgium on 19-August-2013 for €2,00 sampled at home on the other side of the Atlantic in Washington on 12-March-2014.

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